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Show great surgeon then lifted th brain out and tora away the nerve which bad caused the pain. . ' The operation of tracheotomy makes It possible to do away with the windpipe, very uncomfortably. At the Eastern Dis trlct hospital In 'Brooklyn George Lynch, ; ': who for many years had smoked an ex- cessive number of cigars, had to pay' .' therefor by the loss of his entire tongue. Lynch recovered from, the severe opera-1 tlon. The danger of cancer waa with-1 drawn, and Lynch even learned to talk' without his tongue. ' Aaron Johnson has a rubber larynx, to. replace the natural one removed by the' surgeons of the San Francisco City. hoe-' pital. There are cases of silver and ' rubber' jaws or parts of laws. Jaws expertly' made to take the place of the bones lost by accident or removed by the surgeon. . A man. If he be naturally robust, can do without five ribs. George Burns of Ho-' bokert has lost that number, and for a' substitute, to protect the contents of his, chest, he wears a corset. This year surgery does deeds that If could not do last year, such Is the pro-' V-gress V-gress of Its skill and advancing knowledge, knowl-edge, but It works always more discriminatingly. dis-criminatingly. Fewer legs and arms are' removed. The dentist surgeon fills a tooth that his predecessor would carelessly care-lessly andylgnorantly have pulled out. IF YOUR STOMACH PAINS YOU, THROW IT AWAY, P0R YOU DON'T NEED IT v You don't need a stomach: Such is the startling assertion of Dr. J. B. Eullieon, who has been fasting for more than forty days in Toledo, O. He predicts that the tima will come when the stomach will be retired entirely en-tirely and man will live on air and water. He regards food as unnecessary and the digestive apparatus of man as an antiquated and superfluous part of his anatomy. . Imagine a man armless, legless, half of his brain removed, eyeless, earless, without a nose, tongueless, with no lower jaw, no wind pipe, one lunged, without a stomach without several other internal organs and yet a living being! Each and every one of these organs and limbs has been removed, not all, it is true, from one man, yet there is no reason rea-son why, if it became necessary to remove re-move them all. he should not' live. Even then he would not have lost all that the newest surgery has proved can be spared from the human body. Only within the cavities of the heart has the surgeon not dared to look. In desperate expedients to save life the surgeon has proved Just how many "vital" organs, and how much of each must be lefi? within the body to carry on the functions of its existence. Removing Superfluities. Nature has changed its mind many times in the processes of evolution that have produced man as he appears today. The expert anatomist declares there is much that is superfluous in man's body now though some of these organs may have been valuable to him in his monkey mon-key state. Surgery In removing some of these superfluities can work a positive benefit to what remains, says the sur-geon sur-geon who has skillfully extracted a man's vermifo m appendix. Yet few persons hanker after these surgical improvements. improve-ments. A complete body, as erring nature na-ture has provided It, is good enough for most of, us. Yet When the emergency comes that demands the surgeon's skill it is consoling consol-ing to know what miracles he can work. It is hardly more than fifty years since he began his expert cutting in the interior inte-rior ofi the body. It is less than that time since anesthetics gave him hours and a i passive subject, instead of only minutes and a terrorized and struggling patient! on whom to operate. Want a Monkeys Heart? While the heart has remained the one organ with which the surgeon has feared to venture very far. two surgeons of the University of Chicago. Drs. Guthrie and Carrellj from laboratory experiments on animals, express the hope that a worn out heart in a human being may be removed re-moved j and replaced by the healthv. youthful and strong heart of a living monkey. Col. Michael C. Murphy, former Police Commissioner of New York, was one of the men who have proved in their own lives that a stomach Is not a necessity. Col. Murphy was shot through the stomach stom-ach ini the Civil war. Many years later there was a recurrence of trouble from the wound, and the surgeons decided that io was necessary to remove, the entire en-tire stomach. This was flone successfully, and Mr. Murphy lived in good health for many years. All the foods the proteids and starches that the stomach digests are digested to a more limited extent in thei intestines. But the man without the stomach is limited largely to soft and liquid i foods. In many Instances one lobe of the liver has been removed without seriously . Interfering In-terfering with the functions of life. One I of the kidneys has been taken away, land the spleen, which some of the ancients held was the seat of the soul, has been removed entirely. Need but One Kidney. Such an operation was performed at the Harlem hospital on little Michael Vitelej and for months after the opera- tion repeated examinations of the blood were made at the hospital in the hope of discovering the true function of the spleen. Large sections of the intestines have been removed with entire success. "This is no longer considered an extra hazardous operation," says Dr. George F. Shrady. There is a large superfluous area of lung surface for all the needs of, the body, if a person breathes properly. One-half One-half of the lungs may be put out of action, ac-tion, and sometimes is in persons who have Irecovered from tuberculosis. It 1$ with the brain and the spinal cord that jthe latest surgery has performed some I of its greatest feats. Edward Farrell fell and broke his neck in Philadelphia. At the Medico-Chlrur-gical I hospital the injured part of the spinal cord was cut away, the ends sewn together and he recovered fully. . And there was the case of Thomas Hal-pin, Hal-pin, a boy whose back was broken in a coasting accident on St. Nicholas avenue. At the J. Hood Wright hospital two vertebrae ver-tebrae were taken from his backbone. He recovered from his paralysis and soon Was able to ride down hill again. The wonders worked with the brain by surgeons include the removal of large parta. of it. An animal's entire brain the cereorum may be destroyed and yet he will live. The cerebellum also may be removed, if the medulla at the' summit sum-mit of the spinal cord be not injured. The animal continues to eat, if food be placed in Its mouth. It will walk, but aimlessly. It la I Idiotic. So every part of the brain of a I human being removed lessens some of hie faculties. Her Brain Bemoved. In the case of the Countess Telfenor, Mrs. I John W. Mackay'e sister, a cure of neuralgia .was effected by the surgeon's courageous skill In handling the brain. A piece of the Countess' skull having beeni removed by Sir Victor Horsley, the y |